Functionals defined on piecewise rigid functions: Integral representation and $\Gamma$-convergence

Abstract

We analyze integral representation and $\Gamma$-convergence properties of functionals defined on \emph{piecewise rigid functions}, i.e., functions which are piecewise affine on a Caccioppoli partition where the derivative in each component is constant and lies in a set without rank-one connections. Such functionals account for interfacial energies in the variational modeling of materials which locally show a rigid behavior. Our results are based on localization techniques for $\Gamma$-convergence and a careful adaption of the global method for relaxation (Bouchitté et al. 1998, 2001) to this new setting, under rather general assumptions. They constitute a first step towards the investigation of lower semicontinuity, relaxation, and homogenization for free-discontinuity problems in spaces of (generalized) functions of bounded deformation.

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